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1 Dead, 5 Hurt as Hizbullah Members Clash with Palestinians in Burj al-Barajneh
[An Nahar] One person was killed and five others were maimed Sunday in an armed clash between members of Hizbullah and Paleostinian young men near the Burj al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut's southern suburbs.State-run National News Agency identified the dead man as Paleostinian national Mohammed al-Simrawi, saying the shootout erupted when a number of Paleostinians in a wedding convoy refused that their cars be searched by a Hizbullah checkpoint. "Security forces and representatives of the factions of the Paleostine Liberation Organization intervened in a bid to contain the incident as festivities abated," the agency added. Earlier, MTV said a number of Paleostinians "opened fire on a Hizbullah checkpoint near the Burj al-Barajneh slaughterhouse after they refused to be searched." Al-Jadeed television said Hizbullah was "communicating with the camp's security committee to pacify the situation." LBCI television said protesters burned tires at the camp's entrance and shouted anti-Hizbullah slogans in the wake of the clash. Later on Sunday, NNA said a meeting got underway between Hizbullah and the Paleostinian factions at the party's office in Haret Hreik and that a joint statement would be issued after the talks. Hizbullah had beefed up its security measures in and around Beirut's southern suburbs in the wake of a powerful boom-mobileing that rocked the Rweiss neighborhood in Dahieh and left 27 people dead and around 300 maimed. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-09 |
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